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Analysis: Obama's climate agenda may face setbacks in federal court
2013-03-24 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama's plan to use federal agencies, and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular, to drive his second-term climate change agenda might be in peril if he cannot fill vacant seats on the federal court that has jurisdiction over major national regulations, legal experts say. Obama is the first full-term president in more than a half century not to have appointed a single judge to the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court, considered...
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